Deborah Fraser’s body remains in morgue, says family: ‘It’s a disaster’

The body of gospel singer Deborah Fraser has been returned to the morgue as a result of “disastrous” weather following her funeral at the weekend.

According to the late star’s family, they were left with the “tough decision” of not laying her to rest following her star-studded funeral service in Durban on Saturday 21 May.

DEBORAH FRASER GRAVESITE FLOODED BY HEAVY RAINFALL

According to her Universal Music brand manager Ntombeningi Sithole, the family was heartbroken after not being able to bid farewell to Deborah Fraser at her final resting place.

She told Drum magazine: “I was hurt on behalf of the family; no one should ever be in a position to send the body back on the day of the funeral. A funeral is a process of grieving and they are not yet close because they still need to worry about arranging another funeral.

“You know when you already told yourself that you are going to lay someone to their resting place and something like this happens, it breaks your spirit.”

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Sithole claims the decision was made after organisers discovered that the gravesite had been washed away due to heaving rainfall.

She added: “The weather was not good but we never thought it could flood the grave. We had the ceremony, and everything went well. When we got to Hillcrest cemetery it was a disaster, and the family had to come up with the decision of taking the body back to the mortuary”.